Comments on: Fix Your Posture, Fix Your Qi, Fix Your Biochemistry

By: Emily

Emily — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 05:06:01 +0000

I’d love to learn more about why MFR and qi gong go so well together!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 04:02:05 +0000

Loved the post! Good job Sifu

By: Ando Mierzwa

Ando Mierzwa — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:31:00 +0000

Excellent article as always, Sifu!

By: vincent canale

vincent canale — Thu, 31 May 2018 14:24:02 +0000

Sufi
Remarkable piece! Thank you.

By: peter levine (Ishan das)

peter levine (Ishan das) — Thu, 31 May 2018 05:24:55 +0000

Hi Sifu! You touch on different topics in this article. I’ve been a sloucher all my life, and never suspected that it was because I was depressed, and that it keeps one depressed. It’s relative, I believe, as we all live in our own world, our own reality. But our posture colors that reality. I began to wake up to this fact some time before beginning this course with you. It seems like, in various ways, this course is an answer to things I have been working on, providing practical guidance that I never heard about in school or in therapy sessions.
When you talk about how the different techniques affect the qi flow in the different meridians, I perk right up. I want to understand the meridians. And I want to understand how the different techniques influence the qi flow in these meridians. I think about this every time I do the techniques, wondering to myself, “When is Sifu going to explain the connection between the techniques and how they affect the flow of qi in the body?” Yes, I want this knowledge very much. I imagine that when a master does a technique, he focuses on the appropriate meridian, and how the qi should move in that meridian, and that awareness is a factor in the efficacy of his/her practice. I want to get to that point.
Then you talk about MFR and how it can help a person like me reclaim his healthy, upright posture. I am ready for this.
I know that what I am learning in 101 is effecting an internal change for the better in me, in the way my body works, in the way my mind works, and the way I hold my heart energy, and that, as you say, each of the other components of what we are.
I am so hungry for the wisdom you are sharing, and the wisdom that the techniques carry that I do every technique that you have taught us so far, every day. When I begin I think to myself, “What I felt yesterday was too good to be true. Surely it won’t happen like that again today. But I’ll do it anyway.” And by the time I am finished the 5 phases, I feel so wonderful. I am getting the hint, that life is wonderful, and all of my fears, apprehensions, dreads, etc., are like clouds, and that qigong is parting those clouds so that the sunshine of life is beginning to come through.
As usual, in your articles, you provide exciting links. I’ll be pursuing those links one at a time. Thank you so much.

By: Clare Sente

Clare Sente — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:23:38 +0000

The researcher was Silvan Tompkins from Princeton. He lived 1911-1991.

By: Clare Sente

Clare Sente — Wed, 30 May 2018 23:16:17 +0000

I did miss your blogs Anthony. They are so wonderful and informative. I do myofacial release myself and teach self care Myofacial release to all my Thai massage clients after their massage. I have been itching to create some short videos to help encourage them to do it. Thanks for covering a lot in this blog.

In the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks about a researcher who took a sabbatical for 6 or more months to study his new born’s face and logged over one thousand different combinations of facial (not fascial) muscled. He and his colleague later catalogued the combinations and practices them. They both realized that when they practiced “mad” or “sad” face combinations they began to feel those emotions. Fascinating!

By: alex

alex — Wed, 30 May 2018 20:19:45 +0000

You know what? I have the actual book by Amy Cuddy but I never bothered much with it…however i just tried the victory v pose and held it for ~30 seconds. WOW! I feel like a million bucks. I am going to combine that with qigong from now on. THANK YOU for the blog.

By: Sifu Anthony Korahais

Sifu Anthony Korahais — Wed, 30 May 2018 12:35:52 +0000

In reply to Beth. Ah, I see that Kelly Starrett wrote the forward. I have his "Supple Leopard" book. I'll check it out. Thanks!

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 30 May 2018 12:26:20 +0000

My favorite Myofascial release method is the book “the roll model” by Jill Miller, add in the recommended bag of tune-up balls and you can have a doityourself massage anytime